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S door 
A hinged connecting door
between vehicle saloons on London underground stock.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: S doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
sack barrow
A two wheel barrow for
conveying sacks, luggage and similar materials across the platform.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: sack barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
sack trolley
A four wheel trolley for
conveying sacks, luggage and similar materials across the platform.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: sack trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
saddle tank
A water tank curved over the
top of the boiler.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saddle
tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
saddle tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water containing tanks on its main frames plus a separate water/fuel tender.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saddletank and tender
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
saddle tank locomotive
A tank locomotive with water
tank curved over the top of the boiler.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: saddle tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
safety barrier
An obstruction intended to
prevent entrance to a dangerous situation.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety barriers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
safety chain
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: safety
chains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
safety circuit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety circuits
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
safety circuit selector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety circuit selectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
safety hanger
A metal strap
provided at various vulnerable points in the brake rigging to catch broken or
detached brake gear parts and prevent them dropping on the track.
Warrant:
Great Western Railway Carriage Drawings
Plural form: safety hangers
USE safety loop
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical brake transmission components>
safety loop
A metal strap provided at
various vulnerable points in the brake rigging to catch broken or detached brake
gear parts and prevent them dropping on the track.
Warrant: The Automatic
Vacuum Brake, British Railways Board , 1967 p17
Plural form: safety
loops
UF safety hanger
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical brake transmission components>
safety points
Points installed for the
purpose of intercepting runaway vehicles or stopping trains from leaving
sidings, loops, etc. without authority.
Warrant: Railway Appliances, John
Wolf Barry, Longmans, Green and Co, 1876 p92
Plural form: safety points
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
NT catch points
NT trap points
safety rattle
An audible device in which a
wooden baton strikes against a ratchet when swung round. Used by lookouts as an
alarm to warn track workers of the approach of a train.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: safety rattles
UF rattle
CL Tools and equipment
BT lookouts equipment
safety valve
A valve allowing excess
pressure to escape from the locomotive boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: safety valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
NT direct load safety valve
NT muffled pop safety valve
NT pop safety valve
NT Ramsbottom safety valve
NT Ross safety valve
NT Slater safety valve
safety wiring
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety wiring
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
saloon
A railway passenger carriage
with an open internal layout.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: access components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
saloon and corridor key
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon and corridor keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
saloon bell surround
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon bell surrounds
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT saloon equipment
saloon bodyside/doorleaf seal
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon bodyside/doorleaf seals
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon carriages
UF saloon coach
UF saloon (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
saloon coach
A carriage usually for
special traffic purposes such as railway directors, or private party sometimes
also used as an alternative to open coach.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
saloon coaches
USE saloon carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
saloon communicating threshold
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon communicating thresholds
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon door interlock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon door interlocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon door selective re-open control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon door selective re-open
controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
saloon equipment
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon equipment
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
NT saloon bell surround
saloon exterior sill plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon exterior sill plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon floor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon floors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT floor component
saloon heat and vent control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon heat and vent controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT ventilation component
saloon heat and ventilation indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon heat and ventilation
indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT ventilation component
saloon heating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon heating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
saloon interior sill plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon interior sill plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon lights control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon lights controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <lighting controls>
saloon lights switch indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon lights switch indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <lighting controls>
saloon passenger information system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon passenger information
systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <train staff/passenger communication>
saloon seating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon seating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
saloon sliding door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon sliding doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
saloon ventilation
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon ventilation
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilation component
saloon (vehicle)
A coach with all
seats in one or more open areas.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: saloons (vehicles)
USE saloon carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
salt wagon
A wagon designed for the
conveyance of salt.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: salt wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
sand box
A container, usually a
casting, holding sand to assist adhesion of a locomotive.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: sand boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sand drag
A container of sand built up
to cover the rails, designed to slow and stop a train derailed at catch points
or approaching buffer stops.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: sand drags
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
sand gear
The equipment operated by
the driver of a steam locomotive to release sand onto slippery rails to improve
adhesion.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and
operation, A Morton Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: sand
gear
USE sanding gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
sand railway
A railway serving a sand
pit.
Warrant: Industrial Railways of the South-East, I Dean et al, The
Middleton Press, 1984
Plural form: sand railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
sand wagon
A wagon used for the
conveyance of sand.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LNER Wagons, P Tatlow,
Oxford Publishing Company, 1976
Plural form: sand wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT stone wagon
sander
A device operated by the
driver of a locomotive to release sand onto slippery rails to improve grip.
Warrant: Heritage Railways Association - Glossary,
http://ukhrail.ac.uk/glossary, 2000
Plural form: sanders
USE sanding gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
sanding gear
A device operated by the
driver of a steam locomotive to release sand onto slippery rails to improve
adhesion.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
sanding gear
UF sand gear
UF sander
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT de-sander
NT Gresham locomotive steam standing apparatus
NT sand box
NT sanding gear wind deflector
NT sanding operating gear
NT sanding pipe
NT sanding valve
sanding gear wind deflector
A device to prevent sand
from being dispersed while it is being deposited on the rail by sanding
gear.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
sanding gear wind deflectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sanding operating gear
The mechanism for operating
the sanding gear.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: sanding operating gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sanding pipe
The pipe running from the
sandbox to just above the rail head adjacent to the wheel, through which sand is
dispensed onto the rail.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: sanding pipes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sanding valve
The valve releasing the
mechanism that dispenses sand onto the rail, may be steam, air, gravity or water
operated.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sanding valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sandite
A mixture of sand and
antifreeze used for assisting traction adhesion during extreme weather or during
the leaf fall season.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural
form: sandite
CL Tools and equipment
BT <track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
sausage van
A vehicle specially designed
for and dedicated to the conveyance of sausages.
Warrant: The Illustrated
History of LMS Standard Coaching Stock, Vol 1, D Jenkinson & R J Essery,
Oxford Publishing Company, 1991
Plural form: sausage vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <meat and poultry product carrying vehicles>
scar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scars
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
scarf joint rail
A joint used for some types
of fish-bellied rail where the ends were overlapped side by side to make the
joint.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: scarf joint rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
scheduled train
A freight or passenger train
that operates a regular scheduled service.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scheduled trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
NT runs-as-required train
Schoen wheel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Schoen wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT disc wheel
scissors crossing
A crossover
between two parallel tracks in both directions, the two connections crossing
each other diagonally at their centres so that in plan it resembles an open pair
of scissors.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scissors
crossings
USE scissors crossover
CL Track and track components
BT crossover
scissors crossover
A crossover between two
parallel tracks in both directions, the two connections crossing each other
diagonally at their centres so that in plan it resembles an open pair of
scissors.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: scissors
crossovers
UF scissors crossing
CL Track and track components
BT crossover
scoop
The means of taking up water
into a locomotive tender from the water troughs.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: scoops
USE water scoop
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water collection components>
scotch
A lump of wood either placed
in an open switch of points to prevent movement or on a rail under a wheel to
prevent a vehicle from being moved.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North
Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: scotches
UF skid
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
scotch block
A pivoted or hinged block
which can be placed across a rail to prevent vehicles passing a certain
point.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W
Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922
Plural form: scotch blocks
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
RT Scotch
scrap road
A siding where condemned
vehicles are stored pending disposal.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: scrap roads
USE condemned stock siding
CL Track and track components
BT siding
screw coupling
Two D shaped shackles
connected by a threaded spindle allowing the two shackles to moved closer
together which facilitates the buffers between adjoining vehicles being held
together.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
screw couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
screw reverser
A screw mechanism used to
reverse the direction of travel of the locomotive.
Warrant: Lexique General
de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: screw reversers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reverser
scroll iron
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scroll irons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
searchlight signal
colour light signal with a
single lamp and lens behind which a sliding spectacle plate moves to give the
aspect.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: searchlight signals
CL Control and communications
BT <colour light signals by construction>
seaside railway
A miniature pleasure railway
found in a seaside resort.
Warrant: A Survey of Seaside Miniature Railways,
D J Croft, The Oakwood Press, 1992
Plural form: seaside railways
CL Railway types
BT leisure railway
NT pier railway
RT miniature railway
season ticket
A ticket providing unlimited
travel between two given points over a given period (e.g. a week, month, quarter
or year) and sold at a discount.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: season tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
NT traders season ticket
seat arm rest
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat arm rests
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat base
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat bases
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat cover
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat cushion
Upholstered padded seat in
passenger railway carriages.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: seat cushions
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat lock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat locks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat reservation label
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat reservation labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT reservation label
seat riser
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat risers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat squab
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat squabs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
second class carriage
A railway carriage provided
for the use of passengers holding second class tickets.
Warrant: Passenger
Class Distinctions, C E Lee, The Railway Gazette, 1946
Plural form: second
class carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
second class ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland
Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: second class tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
<secondary electrical circuitry>
Electrical wiring, etc.
primarily concerned with control and ancillary functions such as lighting, etc.
For traction current collection and transmission components, see <secondary
power collection components>.
Plural form: <secondary electrical
circuitry>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT inter-car cable
NT inter-car jumper
NT jumper lead
NT local bond circuit
NT passenger open transmission
NT round train circuit
NT wiring loom
RT <power collection components>
secondary suspension
The flexible interface
between the vehicle body and its bogies.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: secondary suspension
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
<secondary use structures>
A building or other
structure converted from a redundant vehicle body or some other structure
originally intended for a different purpose.
Plural form: <secondary use
structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT de-wheeled carriage shelter
section indicator
An instrument in the
signalbox controlling the passage of trains.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: section indicators
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
NT bay indicator
NT calling-on indicator
NT lock indicator
NT platform indicator
section isolator
An isolator used on an
electrified railway to divide the current supply system into separate areas or
sections so that power can be switch off to an individual section of line.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form:
section isolators
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
section signal
A stop signal which controls
the entrance to the block section.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: section signals
CL Control and communications
BT stop signal
section token
A token controlling the
movement of trains on a single line, where the driver must have possession of
the token to proceed.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: section tokens
CL Control and communications
BT block token
sector plate
A rotating table fitted with
a section of line and pivoted towards one end, used to transfer locomotives and
rolling stock from one line to another, usually in confined spaces where there
is insufficient room for a headshunt and turnout.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sector plates
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
RT turntable
self maintaining brake system
A system which will
automatically compensate for air leakage in the brake system.
Warrant: LUL
Jargon Buster
Plural form: self maintaining brake systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
self normalising points
A set of points, spring
operated or motor operated, which move back into the original position after a
train has passed over them.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural
form: self normalising points
UF self restored points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
self restored points
A set of
points, spring operated or motor operated, which move back into the original
position after a train has passed over them.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: self restored points
USE self normalising points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
self-acting railway
An incline
worked by ropes or cables, on which the weight of descending vehicles provides
the power to haul up others on adjoining track.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: self-acting railways
USE counterbalanced railway
CL Railway types
BT cable haulage railway
self-cleaning smokebox
A smokebox fitted with a
baffle plate placed in front of the tube plate to direct the gases down and
forward, lifting the ash towards a mesh screen which breaks up larger pieces of
ash so they are small enough to expel out of the chimney rather than allowing
the ash to remain in the smoke box..
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working,
C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form:
self-cleaning smokeboxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox
self-contained buffer
A complete buffing unit
bolted to the headstock, consisting of a coil, volute or rubber spring contained
within the housing. A hole in the headstock is provided for the travel of the
buffer ram when under compression.
Warrant: An Illustrated History of BR
Wagons, Volume 1, Paul Bartlett, David Larkin, Trevor Mann, Roger Silsbury &
Andrew Ward, Oxford Publishing Company, 1985 p26
Plural form: self-contained
buffers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT buffer
self-propelled crane
A rail mounted crane capable
with its own propulsion system.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
self-propelled cranes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <travelling cranes by propulsion>
self-propelled platelayers trolley
A platelayer's trolley with
its own power source.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
self-propelled platelayers trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT platelayers trolley
<self-propelled railways by adhesion
method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-powered railways by adhesion>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by means of propulsion>
NT adhesion railway
NT MAG-LEV railway
NT rack railway
self-propelled rolling stock
A powered vehicle capable of
carrying a load in addition to its own fuel, etc. and also often able to haul or
propel additional vehicles. For motive power units not carrying any payload, see
'locomotive'.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: self-propelled
rolling stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by propulsion>
NT <self-propelled stock by formation>
NT <self-propelled stock by propulsion method>
RT locomotive
<self-propelled stock by formation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-propelled stock by formation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT self-propelled rolling stock
NT multiple unit stock
NT single unit stock
<self-propelled stock by propulsion
method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-propelled stock by propulsion method>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT self-propelled rolling stock
<self-propelled using externally supplied
power>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-propelled using externally supplied power>
CL Railway types
BT <traction source moving with train>
NT electric railway
semaphore repeater
An electrical instrument in
the signalbox indicating the position of signal arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: semaphore
repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT repeating signal
semaphore signal
Mechanical signal arms
usually worked mechanically by wire from a signal box lever frame.
Warrant:
Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: semaphore signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by form>
NT centre balance signal
NT co-acting arm signal
NT lower quadrant signal
NT upper quadrant signal
semi-automatic signal
A signal normally worked by
track circuits but which can be controlled by a signalman or ground frame
operator as necessary.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
semi-automatic signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by control method>
semi-gangwayed carriage
A corridor vehicle without
gangwey connections for communication with adjacent vehicles.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: semi-gangwayed carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
semi-permanent coupler
A coupler forming a rigid
longitudinal mechanical link between two cars which cannot be uncoupled in
service.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: semi-permanent
couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
semi-permanent coupling
A coupling between vehicles
provided for normally fixed formation train sets consisting of a bar linked to
the adjacent car underframes by pins.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: semi-permanent couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
sepex
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ?
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
serial numbered ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: serial numbered tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
series numbered ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: series numbered tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
servants ticket
A ticket issued at a
discounted fare for travel by servants accompanying their employer.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: servants tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
service brake
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: service brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
service locomotive
A locomotive built for or
transferred to departmental use.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
service locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by activity>
NT sleet locomotive
service train
A departmental or
contractor's train engaged on railway construction, testing or maintenance work
or conveying materials for such work on a non-revenue earning basis. Also
includes non-revenue earning trains for instructional and other departmental
purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: service trains
UF departmental train
UF engineers train
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT non-passenger train
NT ballast train
NT breakdown train
NT continuous welded rail train
NT de-icing train
NT inspection train
NT instruction train
NT rail grinding train
NT skip train
NT test train
NT tunnel cleaning train
NT tunnel inspection train
NT weedkilling train
<service vehicles and on-track plant>
Railway vehicles and
rail-mounted plant used by engineering departments or contractors for line
maintenance, etc.
Plural form: <service vehicles and on-track
plant>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
NT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT <overhead structure maintenance vehicles>
NT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT <power and heating vehicles>
NT <track maintenance vehicles>
NT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
NT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
NT <vehicles for waste materials>
set
A group of waggons on a rope
incline.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: sets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rope worked train
RT freight train
Setright machine
A machine operated by a
conductor/guard for issuing tickets from a blank paper roll.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: Setright machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
sett
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: setts
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
share offer
An invitation for members of
the public (or employees) to subscribe capital in exchange for equity (shares)
in the railway business.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: share
offers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <administration>
shearlegs
A hoisting apparatus of
two or more poles attached at or near the top and separated at the bottom, used
for lifting and fitting engines etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: shearlegs
USE sheerlegs
CL Tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
shear-legs
A hoisting apparatus of
two or more poles attached at or near the top and separated at the bottom, used
for lifting and fitting engines etc.
Warrant: Locomotives, their
construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd,
1946
Plural form: shear-legs
USE sheerlegs
CL Tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
shed plate
A cast plate that
indicates the name or code of the motive power depot or sub-depot to which the
locomotive is currently allocated.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P
Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: shed plates
USE allocation plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <owners identity plates>
shed receptacle
A socket provided on an
electric railway vehicle where a shore supply lead can be inserted to provide
power when the normal traction supply is not available, usually used in sheds
and workshops.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: shed receptacles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <shore supply collection components>
shed staff equipment
All tools and equipment used
by railway employees working in railway depots in the course of their
duties.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: shed staff
equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
shed test magnet
An appliance used for
testing AWS equipment. Passed over as trains leave the depot.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: shed test magnets
CL Tools and equipment
BT <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
shed trolley
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shed trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway yard and shed equipment>
shedplug
The device used to connect
the supply to the train on a shed road or gap jumper.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: shedplugs
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
sheep wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of sheep.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sheep
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
sheerlegs
A device consisting of three
poles of wood or iron bolted together at their upper ends and extended below,
carrying tackle for raising heavy weights. Sometimes provided at locomotive
sheds or wagon repair shops, etc. for lifting locomotives or rolling stock
during repairs.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sheerlegs
UF shearlegs
UF shear-legs
CL Tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
shelf relay
A relay whose housing is
designed to reside on a shelf.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: shelf relays
CL Control and communications
BT relay
shell ventilator
An external roof ventilator
shaped like a cockle shell.
Warrant: The Illustrated history of LMS standard
coaching stock Vol 3: Non-corridor, special purpose and self-propelled vehicles,
David Jenkinson & Bob Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 2000 p8
Plural
form: shell ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof ventilator
shelter
A structure providing
protection from the elements.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
shelters
CL Built works and components
BT building
RT platform shelter
shock absorbing van
A covered van fitted with
special buffing and springing gear to minimise the risk of damage to goods
carried during shunting operations.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: shock absorbing vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT covered van
shock absorbing wagon
vehicle equipped with
telescopic hydraulic buffers used for carrying sensitive loads.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: shock absorbing wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT open merchandise wagon
shoe
Apparatus by which an
electric train picks up current from the third rail.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: shoes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe ball boot
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoe ball boots
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe collector
An electricity collector
that slides along near ground level track.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and
Railways, H Greenly, no date
Plural form: shoe collectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe paddle
A tool made of wood or other
insulating material which can be inserted between the collector shoe of an
electric train and the live rail to isolate traction current in an
emergency.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoe paddles
UF paddle
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe strap
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoe straps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoegear
The mechanical apparatus
located on the bogie for collecting the traction supply from the conductor
rails.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: shoegears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoegear retraction system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoegear retraction systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shop made joint rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shop made joint rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
shop-made joint
An insulated rail joint
prepared and assembled in controlled workshop conditions.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: shop-made joints
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint
shore supply
A fixed facility to supply
electricity for heating and air conditioning to a stationary train lacking its
motive power.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: shore
supplies
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
<shore supply collection components>
Vehicle components concerned
with the collection of traction current from a shore supply lead (shed plug, gap
jumper, etc.). For general electrical circuitry, see <electrical
circuitry>.
Plural form: <shore supply collection components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power collection components>
NT shed receptacle
RT <electrical circuitry>
short circuiting device
A hand tool for preventing
traction current from being switched on to a DC electrified line.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: short
circuiting devices
CL Tools and equipment
BT <track workers safety equipment>
shotter transformer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shotter transformers
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
shunt signal
A signal used for
controlling shunt movements.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LMS Signals, L G
Warburtom, Oxford Publishing Company, 1972
Plural form: shunt signals
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
shunt (route class)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunts (route class)
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
shunt (siding)
A short length of track used
to facilitate shunting movements.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
shunts (sidings)
CL Track and track components
BT <shunting roads>
shunters bell
A bell used to control
shunting movements in tunnels and restricted areas.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: shunters
bells
CL Control and communications
BT <audible signals>
shunters coupling hook
A pole
fitted with a special hook used for manual coupling/uncoupling of loose-coupled
vehicles from the lineside.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, 2000
Plural form: shunters coupling
hooks
USE shunting pole
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters equipment
The tools and equipment used
by the shunter to enable him to carry out his duties.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: shunters equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
NT brake stick
NT chock
NT pinch bar
NT shunters handlamp
NT shunters horn
NT shunters whistle
NT shunting pole
NT sprag
shunters handlamp
A handlamp carried by the
railway shunter used for giving hand signals in poor light, capable of showing
red, green and white light.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
shunters handlamps
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters horn
An small wind instrument
used as an audible device by the railway shunter to warn of danger.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: shunters horns
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters pole
A pole fitted with a
special hook used for manual coupling/uncoupling of loose-coupled vehicles from
the lineside.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: shunters poles
USE shunting pole
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters truck
A railway truck, normally
coupled to shunting locomotives for the use of shunting staff, employing low
running boards, grab handles and boxes for lamps, scotches and chocks, used
extensively on the Great Western Railway.
Warrant: A History of GWR Goods
Wagons, A G Atkins, W Beard et al, David & Charles, 2nd Edn, 1986 p134
Warrant: An Illustrated History of LMS Wagons Vol 2, R J Essery, Oxford
Publishing Company, 1983 p191
Plural form: shunters trucks
UF shunting truck
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <non-revenue operating stock>
shunters whistle
A high-pitched audible
device carried by shunter to warn of danger.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunters whistles
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunting capstan
A powered capstan used in
goods yards, etc. for the rope haulage of wagons.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: shunting capstans
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
shunting chain
The chains attached to the
shunting harness and to the railway wagon during horse shunting.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: shunting chains
CL Tools and equipment
BT horse-shunting equipment
shunting collar
A specially shaped
protective leather band worn around a horse's neck to attach to the harness when
shunting.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunting collars
CL Tools and equipment
BT horse-shunting equipment
shunting equipment
All the tools and equipment
used by railway employees engaged in the movement and marshalling of railway
vehicles.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: shunting
equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway yard and shed equipment>
NT horse-shunting equipment
NT scotch
NT shed staff equipment
NT shunters equipment
shunting frame
Scope note required.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: shunting frames
CL Control and communications
BT <control centres by function>
RT ground frame
shunting horse
A horse used to move railway
vehicles during shunting operations.
Warrant: The Long Haul - The Life and
Times of the Railway Horse, B Holden, J A Allen, 1985
Plural form: shunting
horses
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT draught animal
shunting locomotive
A locomotive used for moving
rolling stock into position for making up larger trains.
Warrant: Allied
Military Locomotives of the Second World War, R Tourret, Tourist Publishing,
1995
Plural form: shunting locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by activity>
NT crane locomotive
shunting pole
A pole fitted with a special
hook used for manual coupling/uncoupling of loose-coupled vehicles from the
lineside.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: shunting poles
UF shunters coupling hook
UF shunters pole
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
<shunting roads>
Sidings, loop lines, etc.
used to facilitate shunting movements.
Plural form: <shunting
roads>
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT centre siding
NT headshunt
NT run-round
NT shunt (siding)
RT <route complexes>
shunting signal
A signal which is provided
for shunting purpose only.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural
form: shunting signals
UF Tommy Dod
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
NT ground shunt signal
NT ground signal
NT hump signal
NT shunt-ahead signal
NT yellow shunt signal
shunting strap
The leather strap connecting
the components of the shunting harness.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: shunting straps
CL Tools and equipment
BT horse-shunting equipment
shunting tractor
A road tractor used for
moving railway vehicles in yards, etc. with paved surfaces.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: shunting tractors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical off-track motive power>
shunting truck
A railway truck,
normally coupled to shunting locomotives for the use of shunting staff,
employing low running boards, grab handles and boxes for lamps, scotches and
chocks, used extensively on the Great Western Railway.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: shunting trucks
USE shunters truck
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <non-revenue operating stock>
shunt-ahead signal
A subsidiary signal used to
indicate that a driver may move past a main stop signal at danger to a
predetermined location for shunting purposes only.
Warrant: British Railway
Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Ian Allan, 1963 p21 Warrant: Two
Centuries of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Oxford
Publishing Company, 1998 p237
Plural form: shunt-ahead signals
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
RT limit of shunt indicator
side chain
Additional couplings
formerly used between passenger vehicles to prevent severance should screw
couplings fail.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side
chains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
side discharge hopper wagon
A hopper wagon with bottom
doors arranged so as to discharge the load to the side (e.g. to deposit ballast
alongside the track).
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the first half
million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form: side discharge
hopper wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
RT hopper wagon
side discharge muck car
A railway wagon dedicated to
the carriage of spoil and designed to discharge its load to the side.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side discharge muck cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT spoil wagon
side door vehicle
A vehicle with doors in the
side of the body or with sides that drop along their full length.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: side door vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
NT side door wagon
side door wagon
A wagon with doors in the
side of the body or with sides that drop along their full length.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: side door wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side door vehicle
NT drop side wagon
side framing
A pillar or rail forming a
basic structural member of vehicle body sides. For door framing see 'vehicle
door component', for window framing see 'light component (vehicle window)'.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and Wagons: Their design and construction (reprinted
articles from The Railway Engineer 1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter
Kay, circa 1997.
Plural form: side framing
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body framing
NT bottom light rail
NT corner pillar
NT deck roof side pillar
NT panel batten
NT standing pillar
NT top light rail
NT waist rail
side lamp
Lamps placed either side of
a freight brake van when this was attached to an unfitted freight train.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side lamps
UF side light (lamp)
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
side lamp bracket
A tongue of steel fitted to
each side of a goods brake van to hold the side lights.
Warrant: British
Railways Rule Book, 1950
Plural form: side lamp brackets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lamp bracket
side lampcase
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side lampcases
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
side light (lamp)
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side lights
(lamps)
USE side lamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
side light (vehicle window)
A window along the sides of
a railway carriage.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side
lights (vehicle windows)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT light (vehicle window)
side plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
side rail
A longitudinal wooden member
forming the side of a wagon floor and the foundation on which the body sides are
built. In vehicles with metal underframes, the equivalent component is the curb
rail.
Warrant: British Goods Wagons from 1887 to the Present Day, R J
Essery, D P Rowland & W O Steel, David & Charles, 1970 p29-30
Plural
form: side rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bottom framing
side rod oil chamber
An oil reservoir above each
crank pin bearing to lubricate the bearings on the side rods.
Warrant: Steam
Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form: side rod oil chambers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
side sill
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side sills
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
side tank
A conventional water tank
arrangement for a tank locomotive rectangular in shape and resting on the frames
both sides of the boiler.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side
tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
side tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water containing tanks mounted on its footplate both sides of its boiler plus a
separate tender.
Warrant: A Hunslet Hundred, L T C Rolt, David &
Charles, 1964
Plural form: side tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
side tank locomotive
A locomotive with its water
tanks mounted on the running plate either side of the boiler.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: side tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
sidelamp
A lamp placed on each side
of a freight brake van when this was attached to an unfitted (loose-coupled)
freight train.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
sidelamps
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
siding
Any track which is not a
running line and on which vehicles may be loaded, unloaded, stabled, shunted or
marshalled.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: sidings
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT brake van siding
NT carriage siding
NT condemned stock siding
NT cripple siding
NT engineers siding
NT private siding
RT centre siding
RT refuge siding
sighting board
A white painted board placed
behind a semaphore signal to improve visibility in locations where the arm does
not stand out clearly against the background.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sighting boards
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
sight-feed lubricator
A locomotive lubricator
where a reservoir of oil mounted in the cab is equipped with a glass fronted
tube to allow the crew to observe that oil is being fed to the valves and
pistons.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: sight-feed lubricators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
<signage>
All of the signs and notices
used to provide information or warnings to railway employees and users. Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: <signage>
CL Built works and components
BT <built work furnishings, fixtures and fittings>
NT <station signage>
signal
A visual indication given to a
train driver to advise on the condition of the route ahead. Warrant: Railway
Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: signals
USE fixed signal
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
signal access component
A part of a signal structure
such as a ladder, landing, safety rail, etc. designed to provide access or
protection for lampmen, S&T staff, etc. when working on the signal head.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal access components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT signal ladder
<signal and telegraph maintenance
equipment>
All tools and equipment used
by railway employees in the maintenance of railway signalling and telegraph
systems. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <signal and
telegraph maintenance equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT climber for climbing telegraph poles
NT shed test magnet
RT lampmans equipment
signal and telegraph works
A factory for the production
of railway signalling and communications equipment.
Warrant: A Pictorial
Record of Great Western Signalling, A Vaughan, Oxford Publishing Company,
Revised Edn, 1984 p23
Plural form: signal and telegraph works
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair complexes>
signal arm
The visible, movable part of
a fixed semaphore signal which denotes the permission to proceed.
Warrant: A
Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing
Company, 1983
Plural form: signal arms
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
NT distant arm
NT main arm
NT miniature arm
NT stop signal arm
signal arm assembly
The visible, movable part of
a fixed semaphore signal which denotes the permission to proceed. It normally
comprises an arm, spectacle, pivot and backlight blinder. In some signal designs
(e.g. GN somersault signals) the spectacles are not directly secured to the arm
(in some signals being well below the arm) but for simplicity will still be
considered part of same assembly as they are directly linked.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: signal arm assemblies
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
signal arm assembly component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal arm components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT back light blinder
NT signal arm
NT signal arm support casting
NT signal spectacle
NT spectacle casting
signal arm repeater
An electrical instrument in
the signalbox indicating the position of signal arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal arm
repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT signal repeater
signal arm support casting
A signal component
supporting the signal spindle and signal arm.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal arm support
castings
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
signal balance weight
A weight used for returning
signal arms to danger when the lever is returned to the normal position.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal balance weights
CL Control and communications
BT signal operating component
signal box
A building housing equipment
for operation of points and signals in a particular area or section of a
route.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: signal boxes
UF signal cabin
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
signal box clock
A clock provided for the use
of the signalman.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal box
clocks
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box component
Any individual part of a
signal box.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form:
signal box components
CL Built works and components
BT <control structure components>
NT signal box clock
NT signal box nameboard
signal box name
A metal or wooden
sign used to identify the location of signal boxes.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal box
names
USE signal box nameboard
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box nameboard
A board attached to a
signalbox showing the identification and location of the box.
Warrant: A
Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing
Company, 1983
Plural form: signal box nameboards
UF signal box name
UF signal box nameplate
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box nameplate
A metal or
wooden sign used to identify the location of signal boxes.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal
box nameplates
USE signal box nameboard
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box telephone
A telephone in a signal
box.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal box telephones
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone
signal bracket
The mechanical assembly
supported on a single post supporting signal dolls and signals for diverging
routes.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal brackets
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
signal cabin
A building or structure
housing the controls and equipment used by the signalman to operate the
signals.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, Jack Simmons, Thames & Hudson,
1991
Plural form: signal cabins
USE signal box
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
signal component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal components
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
NT bump stop casting
NT colour light signal head
NT colour light signal head component
NT disc (signal component)
NT route indicator
NT sighting board
NT signal access component
NT signal arm assembly
NT signal arm assembly component
NT signal key
NT signal lamp
NT signal lamp component
NT signal operating component
NT signal support component
NT tubular steel type signal assembly
NT <signal mounted signs>
<signal confirmation>
Remote indicators that
confirm the aspect or illumination of signals.
Plural form: <signal
confirmation>
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
NT arm repeater
NT lamp out indicator
NT light indicator
NT on/off indicator
NT repeater
NT signal repeater
signal counterweight
A cast iron weight, usually
mounted on a lever on the signal post, that ensures the return of the arm to the
'On' position when tension in the signal wire is released.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal
counterweights
CL Control and communications
BT signal operating component
signal diagram
The diagram of
running lines and signals contained in the signalbox.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal
diagrams
USE track diagram
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
signal doll
The post carrying the signal
arm on a bracket or gantry as opposed to a single signal post.
Warrant: A
Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing
Company, 1983
Plural form: signal dolls
CL Control and communications
BT signal post
signal doll clamp casting
The support casting for
signal spindles and arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal doll clamp castings
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
signal equipment
All the material and
equipment required to form a safe railway signalling system.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal
equipment
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
signal finial
An ornate embellishment to
protect the open top of signal post.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER
Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983
Plural
form: signal finials
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
signal frame
A cast iron frame carrying
the levers for the operation of points and signals.
Warrant: A Pictorial
Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company,
1983
Plural form: signal frames
CL Control and communications
BT lever frame
signal gantry
A structure supporting fixed
signals.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: signal gantries
UF gantry (signal)
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
signal gantry component
A component forming part of
a structure that supports fixed signals above the tracks where it would be
impracticable to locate them alongside each line.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal gantry components
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
NT gantry cross member
NT gantry stanchion
signal head
The casting containing
the colour light signal lenses and lamps.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal heads
USE colour light signal head
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
signal head component
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal head
components
USE colour light signal head component
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
signal identification plate
A plate attached to the
signal post showing a unique code identifying individual signals.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
signal identification plates
CL Control and communications
BT <signal mounted signs>
NT alias plate
NT signal number
signal key
(Possibly) The interlocking
key between the lever frame and crossing.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal keys
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
signal ladder
A metal ladder fixed to
signal posts or gantries giving access to the signal head, lamps and arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: signal ladders
CL Control and communications
BT signal access component
signal lamp
A lamp fixed behind a signal
spectacle so that the aspect is visible during hours of darkness.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: signal lamps
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT ground signal lamp
NT pivot light
signal lamp component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal lamp components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT ground signal lamp case
signal lever
A lever, usually one of
several fitted together in a frame, for operating signals.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: signal levers
CL Control and communications
BT frame lever
signal lever collar
A collar placed on a signal
lever to prevent the movement of points and signals.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal lever
collars
CL Control and communications
BT reminder appliance
signal lever component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal lever components
CL Control and communications
BT lever frame component
NT lever number plate
NT route information plate
signal lever frame
A cast iron frame carrying
the levers for the operation of points and signals.
Warrant: A Pictorial
Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company,
1983
Plural form: signal lever frames
CL Control and communications
BT lever frame
signal motor
The electro-mechanical
equipment for actuating signal arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal motors
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
<signal mounted signs>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signal mounted signs>
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT rule 55 exempt indicator plate
NT signal identification plate
signal number
A plate attached to the
signal post showing a unique code identifying individual signals.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
signal numbers
CL Control and communications
BT signal identification plate
signal operating component
A component forming part of
a signal assembly and serving to transmit motion to the signal arm, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal operating components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT signal balance weight
NT signal counterweight
NT signal rod
NT signal slotting assembly
RT <control transmission>
signal post
A lineside post to which
signals are fitted.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: signal posts
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
NT doll (signal)
NT signal doll
NT tubular steel signal post
signal post cap
A protective cap placed over
the top of signal posts and dolls to prevent the ingress of water.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
signal post caps
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
signal post finial
A decorative protective cap
placed over the top of signal posts or dolls.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal post finials
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
NT tubular steel post type signal finial
signal post telephone
A telephone mounted on or
adjacent to a signal post, gantry or bracket used for communication between
driver and signalman.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LMS Signals, L G
Warburtom, Oxford Publishing Company, 1972
Plural form: signal post
telephones
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone
signal pulley
A cast iron pulley wheel
used for guiding signal wire or chain.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LMS
Signals, L G Warburtom, Oxford Publishing Company, 1972
Plural form: signal
pulleys
CL Control and communications
BT <wire transmission>
signal relay
A relay, energised when all
saloon doors are fully closed on a car.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural
form: signal relays
CL Control and communications
BT relay
signal repeater
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT <signal confirmation>
NT electric semaphore repeater
NT signal arm repeater
NT slot repeater
RT repeating signal
signal repeater (lineside signal)
A
visual display device at or near the lineside that provides information relating
to the operation of the train which repeats the instruction given by the
signal.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: signal repeaters (lineside
signals)
USE repeating signal
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
signal rod
An iron or steel rod used
for operating lower quadrant arms.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER
Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983
Plural
form: signal rods
UF down rod
CL Control and communications
BT signal operating component
signal slotting assembly
A mechanical device used to
link one signal with two signalboxes where close section working exists.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford
Publishing Company, 1983
Plural form: signal slotting assemblies
CL Control and communications
BT signal operating component
signal spectacle
The coloured glass or
plastic through which the signal lamp is shone to denote the aspect.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams,
Oxford Publishing Company 1998
Plural form: signal spectacles
UF spectacle
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
signal support component
A signal component that
supports the signal head and actuating equipment.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal support components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT finial (signal)
NT signal bracket
NT signal doll clamp casting
NT signal finial
NT signal gantry
NT signal gantry component
NT signal post
NT signal post cap
NT signal post finial
signal wire adjuster
A mechanical
device for tightening or slackening signal wires to accommodate changes in
ambient temperature.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent
Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983
Plural form: signal
wire adjusters
USE signal wire tensioner
CL Control and communications
BT <wire transmission>
signal wire bell crank
A pivoting component with
two arms set at rightangles used to change the direction of pull of a signal
wire through ninety degrees.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
signal wire bell cranks
CL Control and communications
BT <wire transmission>
signal wire tensioner
A mechanical device for
tightening or slackening signal wires to accommodate changes in ambient
temperature.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A
Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983
Plural form: signal wire
tensioners
UF signal wire adjuster
CL Control and communications
BT <wire transmission>
signalbox notice
The weekly information sheet
giving signalmen details of engineering work and speed restrictions.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: signalbox notices
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
<signalling and control components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signalling and control components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bodywork component
NT blackboard for shunting notices
NT lamp bracket
NT wagon label clip
NT <fixed head and tail lamps>
<signalling systems for other staff>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signalling systems for other staff>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling>
NT < signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
NT <signals from platform staff to passengers>
NT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
NT <signals from train staff to signalman>
NT <station staff warning systems>
NT <trackside staff warning systems>
<signalling>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signalling>
CL Control and communications
NT level crossing
NT level crossing component
NT <point and signal actuation>
NT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT <signals>
NT <train protection equipment>
signalmans flag
Scope note required.
Warrant: An Illustrated History of Signalling, M A Vanns, Ian Allan Publishing,
1997
Plural form: signalmans flags
CL Control and communications
BT <hand signalling>
RT flag
signalmans handlamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signalmans handlamps
CL Control and communications
BT <hand signalling>
RT shunters handlamp
<signals by actuation method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals by actuation method>
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by method of operation>
NT electro-mechanical signal
<signals by control method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals by control method>
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by method of operation>
NT automatic signal
NT controlled signal
NT inoperable signal
NT semi-automatic signal
<signals by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals by form>
CL Control and communications
BT fixed signal
NT banner signal
NT colour light signal
NT disc signal
NT semaphore signal
NT <primitive disc and bar signals>
<signals by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals by function>
CL Control and communications
BT fixed signal
NT drivers level crossing indicator
NT points indicator
NT repeating signal
NT running signal
NT subsidiary signal
NT Toton signal
<signals by location>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals by location>
CL Control and communications
BT fixed signal
NT tunnel signal
<signals by method of operation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals by method of operation>
CL Control and communications
BT fixed signal
NT < signals by actuation method>
NT <signals by control method>
<signals from platform staff to
driver/guard>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT close doors indicator
NT right away indicator
NT right away plunger
<signals from platform staff to
passengers>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals from platform staff to passengers>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT train starting bell
<signals from platform staff to
signalman>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals from platform staff to signalman>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT train ready to start indicator
NT train ready to start plunger
<signals from train staff to signalman>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals from train staff to signalman>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT firemans call plunger
<signals>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <signals>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling>
NT < audible signals>
NT <visual signals>
<signs and markers>
Posts, notices, etc.
conveying information (other than signals) to railwaymen or the public.
Plural form: <signs and markers>
CL Built works and components
BT <route structures>
NT boundary marker
NT car stop plate
NT gradient board
NT gradient post
NT instructional sign
NT mile post
NT trespass sign
NT whistle board
sill
An iron plateway support
comprising two chairs and a tie bar in a single casting.
Warrant: Early
Limestone Railways, John van Laun, The Newcomen Society, 2001
Plural form:
sills
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
sill plate
Floor threshold at doorway
opening.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: sill plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
Silvertown lubricator
A mechanical
lubricator developed by the Midland Railway and made by Gresham &
Craven.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson& F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: Silvertown lubricators
USE Silvertown mechanical lubricator
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
Silvertown mechanical lubricator
A mechanical lubricator
developed by the Midland Railway and made by Gresham & Craven.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson& F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: Silvertown mechanical lubricators
UF Silvertown lubricator
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
simulator
A device which imitates the
conditions or operation of a system, often used for training purposes.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: simulators
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
single bolster wagon
A four-wheel wagon bearing a
centrally mounted baulk of timber equipped with stanchions to support part of a
long load spread across several such wagons. Sometimes used as a runner
(extension) for an adjacent long load.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the
first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form:
single bolster wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
NT pivoting single bolster wagon
<single built works>
Any individual man-made
structure.
Plural form: <single built works>
CL Built works and components
NT <construction and repair structures>
NT <control structures>
NT <marshalling structures>
NT <power supply structures>
NT <route maintenance structures>
NT <route structures>
NT <secondary use structures>
NT <structures by type>
NT <transhipment structures>
NT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
single flue boiler
A boiler with only one tube
or flue between the fire at one end and chimney at the other, common before the
introduction of the multi-tube boiler.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: single flue boilers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler
single line
one track used for movements
in both direction.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
single lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by direction of working>
<single line block instruments>
Any telegraphic device
provided for the signalling of trains over a single line section of railway.
Plural form: <single line block instruments>
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
NT < electric token block equipment>
NT <no signalman token system equipment>
single line staff
A wooden or metal baton to
control the movement of trains on single lines, where the driver must have
possession of the staff to proceed.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway
Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Oxford Publishing Company 1998
Plural form: single line staffs
CL Control and communications
BT <single staff system equipment>
single line staff box
A box containing the single
line staff when not in the possession of the driver.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: single line
staff boxes
CL Control and communications
BT <single staff system equipment>
single line tablet
A tablet controlling the
movement of trains on a single line, where the driver must have possession of
the token to proceed.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, G
Kichenside & A Williams, Oxford Publishing Company 1998
Plural form:
single line tablets
CL Control and communications
BT block token
single line ticket
A supplementary ticket for
single line staff working, used in lieu of the staff when more than one train
needs to travel consecutively in the same direction.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: single line
tickets
CL Control and communications
BT <single staff system equipment>
single needle speaking telegraph instrument
An induced needle instrument
using Morse code to convey messages.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: single needle speaking
telegraph instruments
CL Control and communications
BT telegraph instrument
single slip
A connection between two
tracks when one crosses the other at an angle.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: single slips
CL Track and track components
BT slip
<single staff system equipment>
Equipment used in the 'one
engine in steam' or 'staff and ticket' systems whereby train movements through
'block sections' are controlled using a single staff, supplemented where
necessary by written tickets.
Plural form: <single staff system
equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
NT single line staff
NT single line staff box
NT single line ticket
NT train staff
single ticket
A ticket valid for a journey
in one direction only.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: single
tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
single tongue trap
Trap points formed from a
single switch usually placed in the siding rail furthest from the line to be
protected.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice,
W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p279
Plural form: single tongue
traps
CL Track and track components
BT trap points
single unit stock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: single unit stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <self-propelled stock by formation>
NT motor parcels van
NT railbus
NT railcar
NT railmotor
single wheeler locomotive
A steam locomotive with one
pair of driving wheels, usually of large diameter.
Warrant: Single Wheeler
Locomotives, C Fryer, Oxford Publishing Company, 1993
Plural form: single
wheeler locomotives
UF single (locomotive)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by wheel arrangement>
single wire double line absolute block
instrument
An instrument in the
signalbox controlling the passage of trains other than on single lines, using a
single wire system of operation.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: single wire double line absolute block
instruments
CL Control and communications
BT <double line block instruments>
single (locomotive)
A steam locomotive
with one pair of driving wheels, usually of large diameter.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: singles (locomotive)
USE single wheeler locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by wheel arrangement>
singleway rail
Parallel or 'T' section
rail.
Warrant: William Jessop's Report to Subscribers to the Midland
Counties Railway, 25 November 1832
Plural form: singleway rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by form>
single-ended unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: single-ended units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT driving car
single-jet Unolco oil burner
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: single-jet Unolco oil burners
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil burner
six coupled locomotive
A locomotive with six
driving wheels, coupled together.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C
R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: six
coupled locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by wheel arrangement>
NT Adriatic locomotive
NT Baltic locomotive
NT jinty
NT mogul locomotive
NT Pacific locomotive
NT prairie locomotive
six foot
The space between two sets
of tracks.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of
Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: six foot
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by position>
six wheel carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: six wheel carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by wheel arrangement>
six wheel vehicle
A railway vehicle carried on
three axles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: six wheel
vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rigid wheelbase vehicle
skeleton wagon
A wagon comprising a
specially designed chassis with no bodywork or floor to allow the conveyance of
very large or awkward loads that could not otherwise be carried within the
loading guage.
Warrant: An iIllustrated History of Midland Wagons, Vol 2, R
J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 1980 p28 & 52
Plural form: skeleton
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
skew bridge
A bridge which spans
obliquely and is therefore longer than the square gap.
Warrant: Encyclopedia
of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: skew bridges
CL Built works and components
BT <bridges by form>
skew crossing
A level crossing where the
road crosses the rail track at an acute/obtuse angle.
Warrant: Railtrack
Group Standard
Plural form: skew crossings
CL Track and track components
BT diamond crossing
skid
A lump of wood either placed in an
open switch of points to prevent movement or on a rail under a wheel to prevent
a vehicle from being moved.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
skids
USE scotch
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
skip train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: skip trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
skirt
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: skirts
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
slab track
Rails set into a concrete or
asphalt base without sleepers or ballast.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: slab tracks
CL Track and track components
BT <track by support>
NT floating slab track
slab wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of iron and steel slabs.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: slab wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
slack adjuster (for brakes)
A device which automatically
compensates for the wear induced in the block of pad during braking.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: slack
adjusters (for brakes)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake component
slaking pipe
A fexible pipe in a steam
locomotive cab to deliver hot water or steam for damping down slack coal or
cleaning the footplate.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: slaking
pipes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
slate quarry railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Padarn & Penrhyn Railways, S Turner, David & Charles, 1975
Plural form: slate quarry railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
Slater safety valve
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: Slater safety
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT safety valve
<slave brake actuators>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <slave brake actuators>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system component
NT automatic brake valve
NT brake cylinder
NT brake direct admission valve
NT brake relief valve
NT brake unit
sled collector
A form of third rail
shoe.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date
Plural form: sled collectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
sleeper
A wood, concrete or steel
object which holds the rails to the correct track gauge and supports the track
on the ballast.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of
Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: sleepers
UF tie (sleeper)
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
NT rail seat
NT <sleepers by function>
NT <sleepers by material>
NT <sleepers by orientation>
sleeper bearing plate profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleeper bearing plate profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
sleeper dogs
A tool for carrying railway
sleepers.
Warrant: Modern Railway Working, A Practical Treatise by
Engineering and Administrative Experts, John Macaulay (Ed), The Gresham
Publishing Company, 1913
Plural form: sleeper dogs
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
sleeper pad
The resilient material
fitted between a chair and the supporting sleeper.
Warrant: Railtrack Group
Standard
Plural form: sleeper pads
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
sleeper plate profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleeper plate profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
sleeper profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleeper profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
sleeper spacer and rail positioner (vehicle)
Scope note required.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p48
Plural form: sleeper spacer and rail
positioners (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
sleeper wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of railway sleepers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: sleeper wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
sleepered track
Track in which the rails are
laid on sleepers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleepered
tracks
CL Track and track components
BT <track by support>
<sleepers by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <sleepers by function>
CL Track and track components
BT sleeper
NT bearer
<sleepers by material>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <sleepers by material>
CL Track and track components
BT sleeper
NT cast iron sleeper
NT concrete sleeper
NT steel sleeper
NT stone sleeper
NT wooden sleeper
<sleepers by orientation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <sleepers by orientation>
CL Track and track components
BT sleeper
NT longitudinal sleeper
NT transverse sleeper
sleeping car
A railway carriage equipped
with beds and other facilities to enable passengers to sleep throughout their
journey.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: sleeping cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
sleeping saloon
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleeping saloons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
sleet brush DOWN indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleet brush DOWN indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary gauges and instrumentation>
RT sleet brush
sleet brush manual control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleet brush manual controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary controls>
RT sleet brush
sleet brush (vehicle component)
A shoebeam mounted brush
used for clearing snow and ice from the conductor rails.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: sleet brushes (vehicle components)
UF sleetbrush
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track clearing components>
RT sleet brush (vehicle)
sleet brush (vehicle)
A railway maintenance
vehicle used to remove sleet and snow from conductor rails.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: sleet brushes (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
RT sleet brush (vehicle component)
sleet locomotive
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sleet locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service locomotive
RT sleet brush
sleetbrush
A shoebeam mounted brush
used for clearing snow and ice from the conductor rails.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: sleetbrushes
USE sleet brush (vehicle component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track clearing components>
slide bar
A guideway formed of one,
two, three or four parallel bars parallel with the cylinder bore, used to keep
the piston rod in line.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: slide
bars
UF cross head guide
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
slide box
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: slide boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
slide contact box
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: slide contact boxes
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
slide valve
The outside admission
distribution valve of an inverted open bottomed box.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: slide valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
sliding chair
A chair with a single
jaw designed to support both the stock rail and the point of the tongue rail in
a switch, the stock rail being bolted to the jaw and the point sliding on a flat
base adjacent to this.
Warrant: Railway Appliances, John Wolf Barry,
Longmans, Green and Co, 1876 p88
Plural form: sliding chairs
USE switch slide chair
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
sliding light
The sliding portion of a
side light which opens to provide ventilation.
Warrant: Heritage Railways
Association - Glossary, http://ukhrail.ac.uk/glossary, 2000
Plural form:
sliding lights
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT light (vehicle window)
sliding window ventilator
A ventilator situated in the
upper part of a carriage window and comprising one or two moveable glass panes
that slide sideways to admit air.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: sliding window ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
slip
A diamond crossing with
connections between both tracks in one or both directions.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: slips
CL Track and track components
BT diamond crossing
NT double slip
NT single slip
RT turnout
slip connection
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: slip connections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
slot repeater
An electrical or mechanical
indication of the position of the home and distant signal slot interlocking.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: slot repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT signal repeater
slow line
A railway line adjacent to
the main running lines used for slower classes of traffic to facilitate the
passing of express trains on the adjacent main line.
Warrant: A Pictorial
Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company,
1983
Plural form: slow lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by speed of working>
sludge tank wagon
A wagon for conveying the
lime sludge extracted from water for steam locomotives at water softening
plants. Often a converted locomotive tender.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: sludge tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for waste materials>
small coal ballast
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: small coal (ballast)
CL Track and track components
BT ballast
small smoke tube
In a boiler fitted with
superheating, one of the small horizontal pipes carrying smoke and burning gases
from the firebox to the smokebox, not containing superheater elements.
Warrant: Handbook for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen, British Transport
Commission, 1957 p39
Plural form: small smoke tubes
UF small tube
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smoke tube
RT boiler
small tube
A boiler tube for normal
heating purposes, not equipped with superheater elements.
Warrant: Railway
Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: small tubes
USE small smoke tube
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smoke tube
smoke deflector
A metal plate fixed to
either side of the smokebox or chimney of a steam locomotive to deflect the
smoke upwards and prevent it from blowing down over the cab and restricting
vision of the line ahead.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: smoke
deflectors
UF blinker
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
smoke tube
One of the horizontal pipes
carrying smoke and burning gases from the firebox to the smokebox, heating the
boiler water which surrounds them and thus producing the steam.
Warrant:
Handbook for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen, British Transport Commission,
1957 p38
Plural form: smoke tubes
UF boiler tube
UF locomotive boiler tube
UF tube (boiler component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
NT large smoke tube
NT small smoke tube
RT boiler
smokebox
A drum shaped component
mounted at the front of a steam locomotive boiler from which the products of
combustion are expelled by the action of the exhaust steam.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: smokeboxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam exhaust components>
NT self-cleaning smokebox
smokebox assembly
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: smokebox
assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
smokebox component
Vehicle components concerned
with removal of flue gases and exhaust steam.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: smokebox components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam exhaust components>
NT blast nozzle
NT blast pipe
NT blast pipe jimmy
NT dart (smokebox component)
NT exhaust branch pipe
NT locomotive chimney
NT locomotive smokebox door plate
NT smoke deflector
NT smokebox door
NT smokebox door hinge
NT smokebox plate
NT smokebox ring
NT smokebox wrapper plate
smokebox door
A hinged door giving access
to a locomotive smokebox.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: smokebox doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
smokebox door hinge
A hinge linking the smokebox
door with the smokebox ring or frontplate and allowing it to open and close.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: smokebox door
hinges
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
smokebox door number plate
Scope
note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: smokebox door
number plates
USE smokebox number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
smokebox number
Scope note
required.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country
Life, 1975
Plural form: smokebox numbers
USE smokebox number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
smokebox number plate
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: smokebox number plates
UF smokebox door number plate
UF smokebox number
UF smokebox numberplate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
smokebox numberplate
Scope note
required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
smokebox numberplates
USE smokebox number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
RT smokebox component
smokebox plate
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: smokebox plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
smokebox ring
The component of a
locomotive smokebox which embraces the smokebox door.
Warrant: Locomotives
and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: smokebox rings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
smokebox wrapper plate
The circular exterior of a
locomotive smokebox, often cylindrical in form, and made from thin steel
plate.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
smokebox wrapper plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
snifting valve
A valve provided on engines
with piston valves to allow air into the steam passages while the locomotive is
moving with the regulator closed.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: snifting valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
snow plough (attachment)
An attachment to the front
end of a locomotive to remove snow from the railway.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: snow ploughs (attachments)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track clearing components>
RT snow plough (vehicle)
snow plough (vehicle)
A special vehicle propelled
by one or more locomotives to remove snow from the railway.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: snow ploughs (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
RT snow plough (attachment)
soda ash wagon
A high sided wagon modified
to carry soda ash.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the first half
million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form: soda ash
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
softwood sleeper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: softwood sleepers
UF softwood transverse sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT wooden sleeper
softwood transverse sleeper
A
transverse sleeper produced from pressure impregnated softwood.
Warrant:
Railtrack Group Standard
Plural form: softwood transverse sleepers
USE softwood sleeper
PLUS transverse sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT wooden sleeper
solebar
A longitudinal member of the
frames of a coach or wagon, made of wood or steel, to which are fixed the horn
plates or axleguards.
Warrant: Modern Railway Working, A Practical Treatise
by Engineering and Administrative Experts, Volume 5, John Macaulay (Ed), The
Gresham Publishing Company, 1913
Plural form: solebars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT underframe component
solebar plate
An identification or
information plate attached to the solebar of a railway vehicle. Use 'number
plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of solebar plate, use the appropriate
specific term (e.g. 'works plate', 'commuted charge plate', etc.).
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: solebar plates
USE number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
sorting tender
A railway vehicle designed
for the carriage of mail and providing facilities for sorting whilst in
transit.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sorting tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mail van
spade
A long handled digging tool
with rectangular metal blade.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
spades
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
span wire
Wire supporting the overhead
electric wires and retaining them in the correct lateral position.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: span wires
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
span wire anchor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: span wire anchors
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
spandrel
The triangular space between
the outer curve of an arch and the rectangle formed by the mouldings enclosing
it, frequently filled in with ornamental work. In railway usage often refers to
the ornate ironwork forming the spandrels of station canopy supports.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: spandrels
UF spandril
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
spandril
An archaic spelling of
spandrel.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: spandrils
USE spandrel
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
spare lever
A lever in the interlocking
frame not connected to points or signals, which may be brought into use if there
is any change in layout.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: spare levers
CL Control and communications
BT frame lever
spate indicator
An indicator placed above a
temporary speed restriction warning board to show that the restriction is not in
force.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: spate indicators
CL Control and communications
BT temporary speed restriction sign
special speed restriction board
A board displaying a
flashing chevron indicating a temporary speed restriction , used when the
restriction is imposed after the weekly notices have been issued.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
special speed restriction boards
CL Control and communications
BT temporary speed restriction sign
special trailer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: special trailers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT trailer car
special train
A train hired, often at
short notice, for the convenience of one individual or a special party.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: special trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT charter train
<specialised wheel arrangements>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <specialised wheel arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by wheel arrangement>
<specific body components>
Vehicle body components that
are specific to a particular feature.
Plural form: <specific body
components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bodywork component
NT cab component
NT saloon equipment
NT side sill
NT skirt
NT splasher
NT splasher cover
spectacle
A frame on a semaphore
signal which moves in front of the lamp, it contains the coloured glass which
gives the signal aspect indications at night. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: spectacles
USE signal spectacle
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
spectacle casting
The cast iron or steel
fabrication supporting the coloured signal spectacles.A cast frame on a
semaphore signal which moves in front of the lamp, it contains the coloured
glass which gives the signal aspect indications at night.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
spectacle castings
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
spectacle plate (cab component)
The weatherboard or cab
front in which the spectacle windows are situated.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: spectacle plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab component
spectacle plate (frame component)
The motion plate beneath the
boiler of a steam locomotive through which the connecting rods pass.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996, 1997 Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: spectacle plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
speech pair
A twin conductor, twisted
and screened cable, used for the electrical transmission of speech signals.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: speech pairs
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
speed indicator
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton
Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: speed indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
speed indicator and recorder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: speed indicator and recorders
CL Tools and equipment
BT locomotive testing equipment
RT <speed regulation components>
speed probe
A device on the axle gear or
axlebar used for detecting the speed of the train.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: speed probes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
speed recorder
An instrument giving a
continuous record of vehicle speed, usually on a paper roll.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: speed recorders
CL Tools and equipment
BT locomotive testing equipment
RT <speed regulation components>
<speed regulation components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: speed regulation components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
NT combined traction brake controller
NT electronic speed sensing unit
NT locomotive speedometer
NT power controller
NT regulator
NT regulator component
NT rotary pneumatic accelerator
NT speed indicator
NT speed probe
NT speedometer
NT traction controller
Speedfreight container
A freight container with
lifting and securing arrangements to suit the Speedfreight system developed by
British Railways in the early 1960s.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: Speedfreight containers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <containers by service>
speedometer
An instrument giving a
continuous indication of vehicle speed.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
speedometers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
spent ballast wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of used ballast.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
spent ballast wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for waste materials>
spent fuel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: spent fuel
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT waste product
NT ash
NT clinker
spike hole gauge
A gauge for measuring the
size of hole into which a rail spike is to be driven.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: spike hole gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT permanent way gauge
spike (chair fastening)
A heavy nail
which holds a chair or baseplate to a sleeper.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: spikes (chair fastenings)
USE chair spike
CL Track and track components
BT chair fastening
spike (rail fastening)
A heavy nail
which holds flat bottom rail to a sleeper.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: spikes (rail fastenings)
USE rail spike
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
NT dog spike
NT trenail
spindle support casting
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: spindle support castings
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
splasher
A wheel cover, similar to a
mud guard on a road vehicle, which prevents brake dust, oil and rust slurry
being thrown up onto the locomotive.
Warrant: A Manual of Locomotive
Engineering, W F Pettigrew, Charles Griffin & Co., 3rd Ed, 1909
Plural
form: splashers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
splasher cover
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: splasher covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
splice leg
Full section splice rail
ends behind the nose in a crossing assembly.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way:
Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: splice legs
CL Track and track components
BT crossing leg
splice rail
Rail tapered to fit against
point rail forming vee at common crossing.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler
(Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p99
Plural form:
splice rails
CL Track and track components
BT crossing vee
splitting distant signal
Two or more distant signal
dolls on one main post which show the signals for more than one route.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: splitting distant signals
CL Control and communications
BT distant signal
RT junction signal
spoil wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of spoil.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: spoil
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for waste materials>
NT side discharge muck car
spoked wheel
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue
& Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: spoked wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheels by form>
NT open spoked wheel
sprag
A short (usually wooden)
rod, tapered at both ends, used between the spokes of a wheel as added security
against unexpected movement during shunting operations.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: sprags
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
spring applied parking brake
A simple compressed air
brake fitted to locomotive for use on the locomotive only, comprising an air
supply, driver's brake valve and connections to the brake cylinders. Also used
on multiple unit coaches.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: spring applied parking brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT parking brake
spring buckle
A retaining clip which wraps
round the leaves of a laminated vehicle spring at the centre point.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952 p 281
Plural form: spring buckles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
RT laminated bearing spring
spring hanger
The means by which a
laminated vehicle spring is attached to the solebar or bogie frame.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952 p 281
Plural form: spring hangers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
spring plank
A transverse member
suspended from the bogie side frames and carrying the secondary springs
supporting the vehicle body.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: spring planks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bogie component
spring points
Unworked trailing points
which automatically return to the normal position after the passage of a
train.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: spring points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
spring (suspension component)
A
flexible resilient component fitted between the frames and wheels of a railway
vehicle to reduce rail induced shock which could damage the mechanism or
structure of the vehicle.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: springs (suspension components)
USE bearing spring
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
spring - bogie side control
A special spring designed to
help the locomotive follow the bogie round a curve.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952 p305
Plural form: springs - bogie side control
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bogie and truck components>
spur line
A very short section of line
branching off another.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: spur
lines
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
stable
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stables
CL Built works and components
BT building
stabling light
A red light on the end of
the train to mark the train's position when stabled.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: stabling lights
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fixed head and tail lamps>
RT <on-train signals>
staff and dormitory Portakabin vehicle
A railway vehicle used to
transport Portakabins to provide mess and dormitory facilities for railway
employees.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter
Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987
Plural form: staff and
dormitory Portakabin vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel accommodation>
staff appointment form
A document for creating a
personal file and pay details for a new appointment to the service.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: staff appointment forms
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <personnel records>
staff changing coach
A railway vehicle used to
provide changing facilities for railway employees.
Warrant: Departmental
Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd
edition, 1987
Plural form: staff changing coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel accommodation>
NT asbestos removal staff changing room (vehicle)
staff coach
A railway vehicle used to
provide facilities for railway employees.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching
Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition,
1987
Plural form: staff coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel accommodation>
<staff management systems>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <staff management systems>
CL Commercial records and equipment
NT duty schedule plate
staff train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: staff trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
staith
A pier with railway lines
along it for discharging coal directly from wagons into ships alongside.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: staithes
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
stanchion (load securing)
A removable vertical iron or
steel bar held in a socket on a load support bolster or wagon side to prevent
the load sliding sideways off wagon.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: stanchions (load securing)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
standard gauge locomotive
A steam locomotive designed
to run on tracks with a gauge of 4 foot 8 1/2 inches (UK mainland) or 5 foot 3
inches (Ireland).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: standard gauge
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by gauge>
standard gauge railway
A railway built to the most
common distance between rails in a country, in Britain it is 4ft 8 1/2 in
(except in Ireland where 5ft 3in gauge was standard).
Warrant: Encyclopedia
of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: standard gauge railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by gauge>
standard lamp
A lamp mounted on a post,
provided for the illumination of railway complexes and buildings.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: standard lamps
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by form>
standard length gauge
A gauge for measuring
standard lengths of rail; standard length have been 30ft, 60ft, 120ft.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
standard length gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT permanent way gauge
standard trimming
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: standard trimmings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil trimming
standing pillar
A vertical structural member
forming the edge of a door opening of a vehicle body.
Warrant: Railway
Carriages and Wagons: Their design and construction (reprinted articles from The
Railway Engineer 1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa 1997.
Plural form: standing pillars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
standing pillar moulding
The vertical moulding placed
over the joint between the standing pillar (adjacent to the door openings) and
the ends of the top quarter panel, quarter light and waist panel.
Warrant:
Railway Carriages and Wagons: Their design and construction (reprinted articles
from The Railway Engineer 1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa
1997.
Plural form: standing pillar mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
star valve
A valve used to provide an
automatic seal to a pipe/hose when disconnected from its mating half. Used on
the main reservoir pipe connections in two pipe braking systems.
Warrant:
LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: star valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
starter
A starting signal.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: starters
USE starting signal
CL Control and communications
BT stop signal
starting signal
A stop signal placed in
advance of the home signal.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: starting signals
UF starter
CL Control and communications
BT stop signal
NT advanced starter
NT outer advanced starter
NT platform starting signal
state railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: state railways
UF nationalised railway
CL Railway types
BT <railways by ownership/funding>
RT military railway
static load test bed
A locomotive test facility
used to check whether the performance requirements of a design are met and for
proving the engine output after a major overhaul.
Warrant: Railway Technical
Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: static load test beds
CL Tools and equipment
BT locomotive testing equipment
station
Scope note required.
Warrant: Victorian Stations, G Biddle, David & Charles, 1973
Plural
form: stations
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment complexes>
NT halt
NT terminal station
NT terminus
NT through station
RT station building
station awning
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: station awnings
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
station bell
A bell used on railway
stations to warn station staff and passengers that a train was due to arrive at
a station.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form:
station bells
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
station bench
A long seat provided at a
railway station for the use of passengers.A seat provided for travellers within
the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country
Life, 1975
Plural form: station benches
CL Built works and components
BT <station seating>
NT platform bench
station building
Any structure with roof and
walls forming all or part of a railway station.
Warrant: The Victorian
Railway, Jack Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Plural form: station
buildings
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
station canopy
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: station canopies
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
station clock
clock on a station façade,
concourse or platform.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: station clocks
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
station forecourt
The open area at the front
of a railway station.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural
form: station forecourts
CL Built works and components
BT <station rooms and spaces>
station garden
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: station gardens
CL Built works and components
BT <station rooms and spaces>
station gate
A gate giving access to any
part of a station.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural
form: station gates
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
station handbell
A bell that has a handle
enabling it to be held in the hand for ringing, used on station platforms for
making station announcement.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
station handbells
UF hand bell
UF handbell
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station tools and equipment>
station lamp
A lamp provided for the
illumination of a railway station.
Warrant: Victorian Stations, G Biddle,
David & Charles, 1973
Plural form: station lamps
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by usage>
NT station standard lamp
station lamp case
The outer casing of a
station lamp, into which the working parts are fitted.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: station lamp cases
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting components>
station lamp frog
The fitting that holds the
lamp onto the lamp post or bracket.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working
Group
Plural form: station lamp frogs
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting components>
station lamp notice
A sign fixed to the station
lamps denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working
Group
Plural form: station lamp notices
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
RT station platform lamp
station lamp sign
A sign fixed to the station
lamps denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia,
Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: station lamp signs
CL Built works and components
BT station name sign
RT station platform lamp
station name
A sign on a station platform
denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: station names
CL Built works and components
BT station name sign
station name sign
A sign on a station platform
denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: A Collector's Guide to Railwayana,
Handel Kardas (Ed), Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 2001
Plural form: station name
signs
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
NT station lamp sign
NT station name
NT station nameplate
NT totem sign
station nameplate
A sign on a station platform
denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P
Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: station nameplates
CL Built works and components
BT station name sign
station plaque
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: station plaques
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
station platform hanging lamp
A
lamp suspended from the station canopy provided to the illumination of the
station platform. Whilst this term can be used for naming purposes, for indexing
it would be better to factor the term as platform lamp + hanging lamp.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: station platform
hanging lamps
USE platform hanging lamp
CL Built works and components
BT platform lamp
station platform lamp
A lamp
provided for the illumination of a railway station platforms.
Warrant:
Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form:
station platform lamps
USE platform lamp
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by usage>
station platform wall lamp
A wall mounted lamp for the
purpose of illuminating the platform area. Whilst this term can be used for
naming purposes, for indexing it would be better to factor the term as platform
lamp + wall lamp.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse,
Country Life, 1975
Plural form: station platform wall lamps
UF platform wall lamp
CL Built works and components
BT platform lamp
station roof
The upper covering of a
railway station.
Warrant: Victorian Stations, G Biddle, David & Charles,
1973
Plural form: station roofs
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
<station rooms and spaces>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <station rooms and spaces>
CL Built works and components
BT <rooms and spaces by building type>
NT booking office
NT buffet
NT paid area
NT station forecourt
NT station garden
station seat
A seat provided at a railway
station for the use of passengers.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P
Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: station seats
CL Built works and components
BT <station seating>
station seat component
Any individual part of a
station seat.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form:
station seat components
CL Built works and components
BT <station seating>
NT station seat nameplate
NT station seat sign
station seat nameplate
A sign fixed to the back of
a station seat denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and
Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: station seat
nameplates
CL Built works and components
BT station seat component
RT station name sign
station seat sign
A sign fixed to the back of
a station seat denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and
Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: station seat
signs
CL Built works and components
BT station seat component
RT station name sign
<station seating>
All of the seating
accommodation provided on railway stations.
Plural form: <station
seating>
CL Built works and components
BT <furniture>
NT station bench
NT station seat
NT station seat component
station sign
Any information sign or
warning notice situated on a station.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working
Group
Plural form: station signs
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
<station signage>
All of the signs and notices
used to provide information or warnings at railway stations.
Plural form:
<station signage>
CL Built works and components
BT <signage>
NT departure board
NT departure clock
NT departure indicator
NT help point
NT help point model
NT platform destination board
NT platform finger board
NT platform notice
NT platform sign
NT platform station sign
NT station clock
NT station lamp notice
NT station name sign
NT station plaque
NT station sign
<station staff warning systems>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <station staff warning systems>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT barrow crossing warning bell
NT train approaching platform bell
station standard lamp
A lamp mounted on a post
provided for the illumination of a railway station.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: station standard lamps
CL Built works and components
BT station lamp
<station structure components>
Parts of buildings and other
structures connected with the operation of railway stations.
Plural form:
<station structure components>
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment structure components>
NT platform edging
NT platform screen door
NT spandrel
NT station awning
NT station bell
NT station canopy
NT station gate
NT station roof
NT ticket hall barrier
NT ticket window
<station structures>
Buildings and other
structures connected with the operation of railway stations.
Plural form:
<station structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment structures>
NT booth (ticket)
NT passimeter
NT platform
NT platform barrier
NT platform barrier gate
NT platform railing
NT platform shelter
NT station building
NT ticket barrier
NT train shed
<station tools and equipment>
All tools and equipment used
by railway employees working in railway stations. Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: <station tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT announcer control unit
NT annunciator (station announcer)
NT fire bucket
NT lampmans equipment
NT loading ramp
NT luggage slide
NT platform tractor
NT station handbell
NT <station trolleys and barrows>
<station trolleys and barrows>
All types of cart, trolley
and barrow used for transporting goods and equipment on and around railway
stations. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <station trolleys
and barrows>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station tools and equipment>
NT calf barrow
NT coffin carrier
NT four wheeled barrow
NT hand barrow
NT luggage trolley
NT parcels trolley
NT platform barrow
NT refreshment trolley
NT sack barrow
NT sack trolley
<stationary propulsion structures and
equipment>
Buildings and other
structures connected with the operation of stationary engines.
Plural form:
<stationary propulsion structures and equipment>
CL Built works and components
BT <power supply structures>
NT < atmospheric propulsion structures and equipment>
NT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
<stationary propulsion systems>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <stationary propulsion systems>
CL Built works and components
BT <power supply complexes>
NT < cable haulage systems>
NT <vacuum propulsion systems>
<stationary propulsion track components>
Equipment placed on or
adjacent to the track that transmits mechanical or pneumatic power from an
external source to propel trains.
Plural form: <stationary propulsion
track components>
CL Track and track components
BT <traction supply equipment>
NT cable haulage track component
NT vacuum propulsion track component
<stationary traction source>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <stationary traction source>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by power source>
NT atmospheric railway
NT cable haulage railway
NT gravity railway
stay (firebox)
A component used to tie the
inner and outer plates of a firebox together to prevent them buckling and
collapsing.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: stays
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT firebox component
steam brake
A brake powered by steam,
fitted to steam locomotives.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: steam brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
steam brake lever
The operating handle for
applying the steam brake.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R
H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form: steam brake
levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
steam brake valve
The valve allowing the
admission or exhausting of steam to enable the operation of the steam brake.
Warrant: Locomotive Management From Cleaning To Driving, J T Hodgson & J
Williams, Railway Engineer, 1914
Plural form: steam brake valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
steam breakdown crane
A steam powered railborne
heavy lift crane used for clearing the track following derailments and similar
accidents.
Warrant: Railway Steam Cranes, John S Brownlie, author, 1973
Plural form: steam breakdown cranes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT breakdown crane
steam chest
The internal part of a
locomotive cylinder block where the valve chamber connects with the steam
supply, the cylinder and the exhaust pipes.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their
Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural
form: steam chests
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
steam chest cover
The rectangular or disc
shaped steam-tight metal cover protecting the slide or piston valve.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural
form: steam chest covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
steam chest sleeve
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam chest sleeves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
steam electric locomotive
A steam locomotive with
electric traction motors powered by a steam turbine driven electric generator
system in place of conventional cylinders.
Warrant: Ramsey Loco. Co., Railway
Engineer, 1922
Plural form: steam electric locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
<steam exhaust components>
Vehicle components concerned
with removal of flue gases and exhaust steam.
Plural form: <steam exhaust
components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <exhaust components>
NT blower
NT blower cock
NT blower jet valve
NT smokebox
NT smokebox component
steam fire pump
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam fire pumps
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
<steam generation components>
Vehicle components concerned
with the generation and transmission of steam.
Plural form: <steam
generation components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction components>
NT boiler
NT boiler assembly
NT boiler component
NT <fuel combustion components>
NT <heat exchange components>
NT <steam transmission components>
steam heat control valve
The valve supplying steam
from the locomotive boiler via flexible hoses between each vehicle to heat
passenger carriages and heated goods vans.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C
Poultney & C R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form:
steam heat control valves
UF steam heating valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
steam heat shut-off cock
A shut-off valve at the end
of a railway vehicle used to ensure that the steam is retained within the steam
heating system when the vehicle is uncoupled, e.g. at the end of the train or
during a station stop when the locomotive is detached.
Warrant: Locomotive
Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake, revised by W B Oaten,
Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: steam heat shut-off cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
steam heated vehicle
A railway vehicle equipped
with steam heating.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam heated
vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heated vehicle
steam heating boiler van
A railway vehicle containing
a steam raising boiler used to provide steam for carriage heating at carriage
sidings or main stations in order that trains could be preheated prior to
arrival of the locomotive.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam
heating boiler vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power and heating vehicles>
steam heating gear
The apparatus supplying
steam from the locomotive boiler to heat the vehicles in the train.
Warrant:
Train Lighting & Heating, Locomotive, Railway Carriage & Wagon Review,
1925
Plural form: steam heating gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
steam heating safety valve
A safety valve situated on
the train side of the reducing valve to prevent the pressure in the train
heating pipe rising to a dangerous level.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam heating safety valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
steam heating valve
The valve
supplying steam from the locomotive boiler via flexible hoses between each
vehicle to heat passenger carriages and heated goods vans.
Warrant: Train
Lighting & Heating, Locomotive, Railway Carriage & Wagon Review, 1925
Plural form: steam heating valves
USE steam heat control valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
steam indicator
An instrument for
measuring the instantaneous steam pressure in a locomotive cylinder during
operation.
Warrant: Locomotive Management From Cleaning To Driving, J T
Hodgson & J Williams, Railway Engineer, 1914.
Plural form: steam
indicators
USE steam locomotive indicator
CL Tools and equipment
BT locomotive testing equipment
steam injector
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam injectors
USE injector
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
steam locomotive
A self-propelled vehicle
powered by steam.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: steam locomotives
UF conventional steam locomotive
UF experimental steam locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by power source>
NT < steam locomotives by boiler characteristics>
NT <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
NT <steam locomotives by exhaust disposal>
NT <steam locomotives by fuel>
NT <steam locomotives by steam characteristics>
NT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
steam locomotive indicator
An instrument for measuring
the instantaneous steam pressure in a locomotive cylinder during operation.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
steam locomotive indicators
UF steam indicator
CL Tools and equipment
BT locomotive testing equipment
<steam locomotives by boiler
characteristics>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <steam locomotives by boiler characteristics>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam locomotive
NT long boiler locomotive
NT vertical boilered locomotive
<steam locomotives by energy conversion>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam locomotive
NT steam electric locomotive
NT steam turbine locomotive
NT <piston driven steam locomotives>
<steam locomotives by exhaust disposal>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <steam locomotives by exhaust disposal>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam locomotive
NT condensing locomotive
<steam locomotives by fuel>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <steam locomotives by fuel>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam locomotive
NT coal fired locomotive
NT fireless locomotive
NT oil fired locomotive
NT wood burning locomotive
<steam locomotives by steam
characteristics>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <steam locomotives by steam characteristics>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam locomotive
NT high pressure steam locomotive
NT superheated locomotive
<steam locomotives by water arrangements>
Steam locomotives grouped
according to the disposition of water tanks.
Plural form: <locomotives by
water arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam locomotive
NT tank and tender locomotive
NT tank locomotive
NT tender locomotive
steam manifold
The steam pipe in the cab
which supplied all the cab control valves such as whistle, injectors, train
heating, blower, sanders, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
steam manifolds
UF manifold (steam)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam transmission components>
steam pipe
The pipe which connects
the regulator valve with the cylinder steam chest, steam passes down this pipe
when the regulator valve is opened by the driver.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: steam pipes
USE main steam pipe
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam transmission components>
steam pressure gauge
A gauge for measuring steam
pressure in items such as boilers, steam chests, train heating pipes etc.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue
& Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: steam pressure gauges
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
steam reverser
A steam operated forward and
reverse control mechanism for a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Railway Technical
Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: steam reversers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reverser
NT Hadfield steam reverser
steam shut-off cock
Any valve fitted to supply
or stop the flow of steam to an intermediate apparatus. Practically every steam
operated device on a locomotive has its own shut-off valve.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: steam shut-off cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
steam tender
A design of tender which had
its own engines, two cylinders were mounted inside the tender frames and drove
six coupled wheels, steam was supplied by the locomotive boiler and was
exhausted into the tender tank to heat the water.
Warrant: Articulated
Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form: steam tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive tender
NT permanent steam tender
NT temporary steam tender
RT articulated locomotive
steam train
A train hauled by a steam
locomotive or propelled by a steam power unit.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steam trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by propulsion method>
<steam transmission components>
Vehicle components concerned
with delivery of live steam to the cylinders or to auxilliary equipment.
Plural form: <steam transmission components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam generation components>
NT collecting pipe
NT main steam pipe
NT steam manifold
NT steam turret
steam turbine locomotive
A steam locomotive where the
power is derived from continuously rotating forces in a steam turbine rather
than in a steam reciprocating engine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: steam turbine locomotives
UF turbine drive locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
steam turret
US term for steam manifold
(also used in UK but not same as manifold? - see comment).
Warrant: Railway
Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: steam turrets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam transmission components>
steam whistle
Audible warning device
powered by steam.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: steam whistles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT whistle
steam/air pump
A steam powered air
compressor for creating air pressure to work air brakes.
Warrant: Steam
Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form: steam/air pumps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT air pump (brake)
<steel carrying vehicles>
Railway vehicles dedicated
to the carriage of products of the iron and steel industry.
Plural form:
<steel carrying vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT bar iron wagon
NT ingot wagon
NT pig iron wagon
NT pipe wagon
NT plate wagon
NT slab wagon
NT strip coil wagon
NT tube wagon
steel key
Key made from steel,
hammered in between the rail and chair to hold the rail firm in the chair.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, 8th edition, Locomotive Publishing Co, 1927
Plural form: steel keys
CL Track and track components
BT rail key
steel rail
Rail made from steel.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steel rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
steel sleeper
A steel beam for holding the
rails to correct gauge and distributing to the ballast the load imposed by
passing trains.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: steel sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
steel works railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steel works railways
CL Railway types
BT factory railway
stencil indicator
A type of alphanumeric route
indicator employing a stencil to form the character to be displayed.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: stencil
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
step gauge
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: step gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT <unidentified tools and equipment>
step iron
A bracket mounted on the
outside of a vehicle to aid access by the crew when boarding from the
ground.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: step irons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
step trim
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: step trims
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
step (vehicle)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: steps (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
stepboard
An extended wooden step
along the solebar, usually running the full length of a non gangwayed
carriage.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stepboards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
Stephenson valve gear
A form of locomotive valve
gear or link motion with two eccentrics for each valve fitted to the crank axle
to give a reciprocating motion through eccentric rods to a slotted expansion
link.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A
Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Stephenson valve
gears
UF Howes valve gear
UF link motion
UF link valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
stick
Slang for a signal. Can also be
slang for telegraph pole.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
sticks
USE fixed signal
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
stock notice (blank)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stock notices (blank)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <unattributed>
stock rail
The fixed rail on each side
of the points.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: stock
rails
CL Track and track components
BT <switch rails>
<stock registers>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <stock registers>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <asset management>
NT asset register
NT register of wagons
NT stores check
NT wagon stock book
stoker (mechanism)
A system for feeding coal
into the firebox removing the need for it to be done manually by the
fireman.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: stokers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel supply components>
stone block sleeper
A stone block to which the
chair supporting the rail is fixed at the correct gauge.
Warrant: Stone
Blocks and Iron Rails (Tramroads), B Baxter, David & Charles, 1966
Plural form: stone block sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT stone sleeper
stone quarry railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stone quarry railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
stone railway
A railway in which the
vehicles run on stone permanent way (e.g. Hay Tor Railway). Not to be confused
with a railway for carrying stone (although stone railways are most likely to be
found in connection with stone quarrying).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stone railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
stone sleeper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stone sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
NT stone block sleeper
NT transverse stone sleeper
stone wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of crushed stone, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: stone wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
NT iron ore wagon
NT limestone wagon
NT sand wagon
Stones ventilator
A ventilator, generally
situated over main windows in the eaves panel, and comprising six or nine
swivelling glass vanes that could be adjusted by the passenger to face or trail
the airstream past the carriage.
Warrant: The Illustrated history of LMS
standard coaching stock Vol 3: Non-corridor, special purpose and self-propelled
vehicles, David Jenkinson & Bob Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 2000 p8
Plural form: Stones ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
stop block
A fixed block to stop
vehicles by contact with their wheels.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way:
Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922
Plural form: stop blocks
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
RT buffer stop
stop board
A sign indicating where a
driver must stop the train.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: stop boards
CL Control and communications
BT <fixed signal boards>
stop indicator
An indicator showing the
word.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the
British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: stop
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <fixed signal boards>
stop signal
Any main signal which can
display a stop aspect or indication.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: stop signals
CL Control and communications
BT running signal
NT home signal
NT section signal
NT starting signal
stop signal arm
The signal arm painted red
with a vertical white stripe, which indicates whether the train should stop.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: stop signal arms
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm
stopping train
A train that stops at all or
most of the stations along its route.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: non-stop trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by frequency of stops>
store truck
A wagon used in a railway
workshop for moving parts around.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: store trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
stores check
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stores checks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <stock registers>
stores van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of railway stores between central works and depots and
outstations, minor repair facilities, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stores vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
storm sheet
Scope note required.
Warrant: London Midland Scottish Drawing Register
Plural form: storm
sheets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab component
stowage van
A railway vehicle designed
for the carriage of mail but not providing facilities for sorting whilst in
transit.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: stowage vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mail van
straddle switches
Trap points formed from a
pair of switches arranged so that when set to protect the main line neither
switch rail is in contact with the stock rails. Thus any overrunning vehicle
will travel along the stock rails until the gauge becomes too wide and they
drop off.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W
Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p279
Plural form: straddle
switches
CL Track and track components
BT trap points
straight air brake
A simple compressed air
brake with no automatic action (i.e. fitted on the locomotive only).
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form:
straight air brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
straight edge
A draughtsman's instrument
for ensuring that straight lines are drawn.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: straight edges
CL Tools and equipment
BT drawing instrument
strap (valve component)
The rectangular opening
within the valve rod which encompasses the raised portion of the slide valve
exhaust cavity to move the valve to and fro across the ports..
Warrant:
Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: straps (valve
components)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
strapping
The term used on British
Railways (Southern Region) to denote short circuits between the conductor rail
and the running rails to ensure the safety of track workers.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: strapping
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <body side components>
street rail
Rail rolled with a protected
flangeway set into the roadway so that non rail vehicles can pass over it.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form:
street rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by function>
stretcher bar
A bar fitted between two
tongue rails or switch blades to keep them at the required separation.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: stretcher bars
UF connecting rod (point)
UF stretcher (points)
CL Track and track components
BT <cross ties>
stretcher (locomotive frame)
A
spacer used to keep the frames at the correct distance apart.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: stretchers (locomotive frame)
USE frame stay
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
stretcher (points)
A bar connecting
two tongue rails or switch blades and holding them in the required position in
relation to the stock rail and the track gauge.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: stretchers (points)
USE stretcher bar
CL Track and track components
BT <cross ties>
strip coil wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of coils of steel strip.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons -
the first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form:
strip coil wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
structure gauge
A portable wooden framework
used for checking that lineside and overhead structures do not encroach within
the clearance profile for the line.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C
R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form:
structure gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
structure gauging vehicle
A railway vehicle equipped
for examining and testing lineside structures, etc. to ensure that there is no
encroachment on the loading guage.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: structure gauging vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT tunnel gauge vehicle
<structures by type>
Terms for buildings and
other structures that are based on the type of structure and give no clear
indication of their usage.
Plural form: <structures by type>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT building
NT crane (static)
NT lamp post
stub end
A section of conductor rail
fed from one point only.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural
form: stub ends
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail
stuffing box gland
A device fitted round the
piston rod to prevent the escape of stuffing and steam from the stuffing box in
the cylinder of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
stuffing box glands
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
Sturrock steam tender locomotive
A locomotive tender fitted
with cylinders and motion, powered by steam from the locomotive boiler to
improve the haulage power of the locomotive, designed by Archibald Sturrock in
the 1860s.
Warrant: Articulated Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form:
Sturrock steam tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT permanent steam tender
subgrade
Prepared surface of the
natural ground or upper surface of fill material.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: subgrades
CL Track and track components
BT track substructure
subsidiary signal
A miniature semaphore arm
positioned under a main semaphore arm, or a position light aspect positioned
below a main aspect, which when cleared, authorises a Driver to pass the main
arm or aspect at Danger and to proceed cautiously.
Warrant: Railtrack London
& North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form:
subsidiary signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
NT backing signal
NT calling-on signal
NT shunt signal
NT shunting signal
NT warning signal
substructure (trackbed)
The track
substructure includes the formation, ballast and any geotextile, geogrid,
blanket.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
substructure
USE track substructure
CL Track and track components
BT <trackbed by position>
suburban railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: suburban railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by places served>
RT underground railway
RT overhead railway
sulphate wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of sulphate of ammonia.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: sulphate wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
Summerson lever
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Summerson levers
CL Control and communications
BT point lever (trackside)
summit
The highest point of a
gradient or incline.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: summits
CL Built works and components
BT <route by inclination, etc.>
superelevation gauge
A gauge for measuring the
amount by which one rail is higher than the other.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: superelevation gauges
UF cant gauge
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
superheated locomotive
A steam locomotive where
steam from the boiler on its way to the cylinders is passed through the hot
gases of the fire for a second time to increase the temperature of the steam and
further expand it. This is done via the superheater elements which sit within
the superheater flues.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson
& F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: superheated
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by steam characteristics>
superheater
A device for raising the
temperature of steam once generated in order to increase the expansion of the
steam after it has left the boiler and before it reaches the steam chests.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
superheaters
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
superheater component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: superheater component
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
NT automatic locomotive superheater flue tube damper motor
NT superheater element
NT superheater header
NT superheater pipe end
NT superheater tube
superheater element
The coils of pipes inside
the large boiler tubes through which saturated steam from the boiler passes to
enable the temperature to be raised.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: superheater elements
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT superheater component
superheater header
The connection box mounted
in the smokebox next to the tube plate containing the incoming saturated steam
and the tubes for superheating the steam.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their
Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural
form: superheater headers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT superheater component
superheater pipe end
Because the ends of the
superheater elements are exposed to the direct action of the fire, they tend to
burn out so the ends were formed of a separate component enclosing two of the
element tubes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: superheater pipe
ends
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT superheater component
superheater tube
The coils of pipes inside
the large boiler tubes through which saturated steam from the boiler passes to
enable the temperature to be raised.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: superheater tubes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT superheater component
supplement ticket
A ticket issued to signify
the payment of a supplementary fare necessary for travel by a special service or
under special conditions e.g. travel by Pullman Car.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: supplement tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
RT Pullman class ticket
supplementary detector
An additional device for
detection of points in association with a supplementary drive.
Warrant: The
History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of
the National Railway Museum
Plural form: supplementary detectors
CL Control and communications
BT <point detection, etc.>
supplementary drive
An additional drive
connected to the switch rails of a set of points at a position closer to the
crossing that the switch tips.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: supplementary drives
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
surface stock
Rolling stock formerly used
by London Transport on its overground extensions.
Warrant: London's
Underground, H F Howson, Ian Allan Ltd, 1986
Plural form: surface stocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by place used>
surface tracking path extender
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: surface tracking path extenders
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<surveillance equipment>
Equipment used to enable
observation. Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form:
<surveillance equipment>
CL Built works and components
BT <built work furnishings, fixtures and fittings>
NT platform monitor
NT platform view mirror
surveying equipment
Equipment used to survey the
route of a railway, determine gradients, measure levels or determine positions
of track or structures, etc. Only surveying equipment specific to railways will
be listed as narrower terms. Standard equipment such as clinometers, levels,
odometers, ranging poles, staffs, etc. will not be listed but if used in a
specific railway context can be classified to this heading in addition to being
recorded within the appropriate hierarchy of another thesaurus (e.g. AAT).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: surveying equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT laying-out peg
NT littleboy
suspension component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: suspension components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
NT active suspension
NT axleguard
NT bearing spring
NT equaliser gear
NT levelling valve
NT primary suspension
NT scroll iron
NT secondary suspension
NT spring buckle
NT spring hanger
NT swing link
suspension tube
A tube mounted on the axle
via bearings in the ends of the tube enabling mounting of the traction
motor/gearbox casing.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: suspension
tubes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric motor components>
swap body
A system for conveying road
freight vehicles bodies on rail vehicles.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster,
1999
Plural form: swap bodies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT freight container
swarf wagon
A wagon for transporting
metal shavings produced during machining operations.
Warrant: On-track plant
on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition,
1981, p47
Plural form: swarf wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
swash plate engine
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: swash plate engines
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
swing link
Part of the suspension
system of many types of truck or bogie, consisting of a metal bar, pivoted at
each end.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: swing links
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
swing nose crossing
A point in which the
flangeway at the nose is arranged to open or close according to which way the
points are set so as to provide a smooth passage for the train wheels.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: swing nose crossings
CL Track and track components
BT crossing (track sub-assembly)
switch and crossing tamper/liner
An on-track machine used to
pack and align the track at switches and crossings.
Warrant: On-track plant
on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition,
1981, p22
Plural form: switch and crossing tamper/liners
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tamper/liner
switch blade
The tapered end of the
switch rail which moves laterally at a set of points.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: switch blades
CL Track and track components
BT switch rail
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
switch blade chair
A special wide rail chair
where the blade of the switch is able to move laterally.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: switch blade chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
switch box
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: switch boxes
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
switch diamond
A type of diamond crossing
with movable switches in place of fixed crossings.
Warrant: Lexique General
de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: switch diamonds
CL Track and track components
BT diamond crossing
switch gear
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: switch gear
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
switch heel
The pivoted end of points at
which the rails carrying a train on to the diverging line begin.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: switch heels
UF heel (switch)
CL Track and track components
BT switch rail
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
switch heel chair
A chair designed to support
both the stock rail and switch or tongue rail at the heel of a switch.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth
& J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p162
Plural form: switch heel chairs
UF heel chair
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
switch rail
The moving portion of rail
on each side of a set of points.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: switch rails
UF tongue rail
CL Track and track components
BT <switch rails>
NT switch blade
NT switch heel
NT switch toe
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
<switch rails>
Rails that form part of a
switch sub-assembly.
Plural form: <switch rails>
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by installation>
NT stock rail
NT switch rail
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
switch slide chair
A chair with a single jaw
designed to support both the stock rail and the point of the tongue rail in a
switch, the stock rail being bolted to the jaw and the tongue or switch rail
sliding on a flat base adjacent to this.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way:
Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p162
Plural form: switch slide chairs
UF sliding chair
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
NT three throw slide chair
switch toe
The 'knife edge' at the
movable end of the switch rail or tongue of a switch.
Warrant: British
Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The
Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p82
Plural form: switch
toes
CL Track and track components
BT switch rail
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
switch (track sub-assembly)
A stock and switch rail
assembly provided in track to allow a vehicle to move to a parallel or divergent
track. A pair of switches and a common crossing with intermediate closure rails
are required to form a turnout.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: switches (track sub-assemblies)
UF point (track sub-assembly)
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
RT point end
S&T brake coach
A departmental brake van
used by the Signal and Telegraph Department.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching
Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition,
1987
Plural form: S&T brake coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT departmental brake van
S&T cable drum carrier
A wagon adapted to carry
cable drums in such a way that they can be unrolled from the wagon during signal
and telegraph cable installation or renewal.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching
Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition,
1987
Plural form: S&T cable drum carriers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cable drum carrier
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